Intel researcher Wilfred Gomes and Intel chief engineer Slade Morgan confirmed the details about its 14th generation Core series in the latest blog post.
First of all, the 14th generation of Meteor Lake and its successor Arrow Lake will belong to the same generation of “client architecture”, they will both use the same design, namely socket and base (compatibility is unknown).
In addition, Intel detailed its first “tiling” or “modular” design and laid out its plans for the PC market over the next 3-5 years.
Starting with the 14th generation processor, each new generation will be a combination of different product solutions, similar to the above two models, which will use different process nodes, core architectures and core counts.
"By breaking down key computational elements, we can rotate IPs and have them find the right process at the right time. Different products require different core counts, different combinations of performance and efficient cores, and different cache sizes."
Intel says that this “disaggregated” design gives the flexibility to adjust for each market segment without breaking the rest of the design. This should mean that Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake are products for different market segments.
As can be seen from the figure, both Intel Meteor Lake (released in 2023) and Arow Lake will use Foveros (3D) and 36μm pitch packaging processes, based on Intel 4 (original 7nm) and 20A processes respectively (for TSMC N5, it is expected that mass production in the first half of 2024).
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Intel confirmed that Arrow Lake will use the exact same configuration as Meteor Lake, the P cores will be upgraded from Redwood Cove to Lion Cove, and the E cores will be switched from Crestmont to Skymont, the core count should increase to at least 32 (mostly E cores) .
Thanks to its modular design, Arrow Lake will be able to retain Meteor Lake’s barebones approach, including SoC and IO modules, thereby accelerating architectural and process upgrades while reducing costs.
The follow-up Lunar Lake is confirmed to be a Foveros, 25μm pitch packaging process, using the same LGA-1851 socket as Meteor Lake, in line with Intel’s principle of using the same design for every 2nd generation platform.
The 14th-generation Core Meteor Lake CPU will use a new chiplet (Tile) architecture, with three main tiles: IO Tile, SOC Tile, and Compute Tile. Compute Tile includes CPU Tile and GFX Tile. The CPU Tile will use a new hybrid core design to provide higher performance with lower power consumption, and the GPU is also a new architecture, up to 192 EU.
